Thread creep again - I have to say that I don't find regulations protecting fish from overfishing to be stupid.

There's a brilliant book called Cod, which has descriptions of the cod commonly caught of the Maine coast in the 16th century - five feet long, six feet around.

We have an irreplaceable resource, and we're raping it.

(As for who has suffered more in the North, well, I'll leave you to your whining competition.)